I have a machine running a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P that runs a Core2 Quad, DDR2 RAM and it's just not up to running newer games - "newer" to me is Battlefield 1. This Gigabyte board has PCIe 2.0 slots so clearly I'm not getting the most out of a PCIe 4 card.
I was running an NVidia GTX770 (PCIe 3) that developed problems and just grabbed a Radeon RTX 6600 because that's what they had. It's a PCIe 4 card, it just seems silly to be running a PCIe 4 GPU on a PCIe 2 board.
I see that newer machines run an SSD that's a plug-in chip rather than the playing card sized SSDs with SATA connections that I have.
Ideally I'd like to go to a newer board that will go into the same case and accommodate:
- SATA SSD drives like what I have including for the system drive
- PCIe 4 GPU - if there's no such thing as a PCIe 4 board that uses SATA SSDs then PCIe 3 will do.
- Floppy drive
- Optical drive
Doesn't have to run the newest CPU, just something that will comfortably run Battlefield 1 at say 60fps or faster. I have a bias toward Intel chips.
Asked another way - what's the newest board that uses SATA SSD drives?
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
I was running an NVidia GTX770 (PCIe 3) that developed problems and just grabbed a Radeon RTX 6600 because that's what they had. It's a PCIe 4 card, it just seems silly to be running a PCIe 4 GPU on a PCIe 2 board.
I see that newer machines run an SSD that's a plug-in chip rather than the playing card sized SSDs with SATA connections that I have.
Ideally I'd like to go to a newer board that will go into the same case and accommodate:
- SATA SSD drives like what I have including for the system drive
- PCIe 4 GPU - if there's no such thing as a PCIe 4 board that uses SATA SSDs then PCIe 3 will do.
- Floppy drive
- Optical drive
Doesn't have to run the newest CPU, just something that will comfortably run Battlefield 1 at say 60fps or faster. I have a bias toward Intel chips.
Asked another way - what's the newest board that uses SATA SSD drives?
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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